

The ship offers all the comforts of a standard hotel, along with a bar and lecture room. The ice-strengthened vessel Ortelius is an excellent vessel for Polar expedition cruises in the Arctic and Antarctica.

It is manned by 22 highly-experienced nautical crew members, 19 hotel staff, eight expedition specialties (one expedition leader, one assistant, and six lecturer-guides), and one doctor. It can accommodate up to 116-123 passengers and has an abundance of open-deck spaces. De Antwerpse kaartenmaker Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) liet een aantal bestaande kaarten opnieuw. It has the highest ice class ranking (UL1, equivalent to 1A) and therefore.

An emperor penguin rookery is situated south of Snow Hill Island. De Atlas Ortelius is de eerste moderne wereldatlas. Ortelius is an expedition ship providing itineraries for Oceanwide Expeditions. Finish the voyage passing through the South Shetland Islands. As a vessel with the highest ice-class notation, Ortelius is capable of navigating in solid one-year sea ice as well as loose multi-year pack ice. This 11 Days expedition cruises aboard the 116 passenger ship Motor Vessel Ortelius and offers the unique experience of close emperor penguin encounters at their more secluded rookeries via exciting helicopter rides. Front cover displays the name and arms of Jean, comte de Hoya, bishop of Münster and Osnabrück (1566-74). Blank leaves inserted between map sheets. It was later reflagged and renamed after the Dutch/Flemish cartographer, Abraham Ortelius, who published the first modern world atlas in 1570. Adept at navigating through solid one year sea-ice and loose multi-pack ice, this ship is ideally suited to reaching more remote locations such as the Ross Sea. Includes 53 map sheets, with descriptive text on verso. Originally built as the Marina Svetaeva in Gydnia, Poland in 1989, the Ortelius originally served as a special purpose vessel for the Russian Academy of Science. UAB Ortelius was established by an experienced Captains and Polar.
